Glückshormone

English translation: endorphins

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-> It is not part of our job to judge the author's choice of words. "Gluckshormone" translates as "happiness hormones", whereas the German word for "endorphin" is "Endorphin".

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vic voskuil: i think it can be used here, but a release of endorphins sounds nicer to me in English//good point about the happiness :) ...but in German you would hardly ever use the word Endorphin outside a medical journal, in English it is rather more colloquial

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-> I'm curious about the word endorphin "sounding nicer" than an expression containing the word "happiness". That apart, the author did not choose the word "Endorphin".

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Diana Loos: with vic voskuil: English colloquial speech is much more used to formal-sounding medical terms than German colloquial speech - think of "tonsillitis", "appendicitis" etc.!